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political science. The formation of the Constitution, also, is re- 

 ^ardeil and treated as a political, not a legal process. Under the 

 head of "i 'onstitutional Law," the author describes the organization 

 of liberty and of government. The latter topic occupies the entire 

 second volume. The typical constitutions selected for comparison 

 are those of France, Germany, England, and the United States. 



— Treason, treason I Let us shout it before it may be too late. 

 Here is Agnes Eepplier writing in the May Atlantic, " The woman 

 who goes to a Browning society when she would prefer cards and 

 x;on versa tion; who sits, perplexed and doubtful, through a per- 

 formance of 'A Doll's House' when 'Little Lord Fauntleroy' 

 represents her dramatic preference; who reads Matthew Arnold 

 and Tourgueneff, and now and then Mr. Pater, when she really 

 enjoys Owen Meredith and Bootles's ' Baby and the Dutchess,' — 

 pays a heavy price for her enviable reputation." She also makes 

 -a plea for the people who resemble that " unfortunate yoimg 

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 that she di I not think ' John Gilpin ' funny." The article, which 

 is entitled " Literary Shibboleths," claims to be a plea for an hon- 

 est confession of our real tastes in literature, and a warning 

 against being carried away by literary fashions. Yes, this is all 

 very well, but it would decimate the ranks of the would be literati. 

 Mr. Morton gives us his second paper on "Some Popular Objec- 

 tions to Civil Service Reform." 



— The opening article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics 

 ior April is by Francis A. Walker, on "Protection and Pro- 

 tectionists." It cannot be called a very satisfactory work, for 

 it merely skims the surface of the subject, leaving its deeper 

 aspects untouched; and, moreover, it fails to make clear the 

 -author's own position. President Walker begins by calling 

 attention to the fact, well known to those who have watched 

 the changes of public opinion, that the protectionism of the 

 present day is very different from that of our forefathers, 

 inasmuch as protection is now adv cated as a permanent 

 policy, and not, as in earlier times, merely as a means of 

 establishing industries that were afterwards to become self-sus- 

 teining. He also points out certain other differences of 



opinion among protectionists, and then touches on a few of the 

 arguments on both sides of the question, but without presenting 

 any thing specially new or profound. The next article in the 

 Quarterly is by Professor E. C. K. Gonner of Liverpool, on 

 "Rioardo and his Critics," and is an able defence of the noted 

 English economist against some of the aspersions that have been 

 cast at him. In particular, the writer shows that the attacks 

 on Ricardo by the late German economist, Adolf Held, were 

 not only in great part baseless, but were animated by an 

 unbecoming spirit. Professor Taussig has a paper on "The 

 Silver Situation in the United States," which is appropriate 

 to the time. It is not a discussion of bimetallism, but a his- 

 tory of the coinage and circulation of our present silver money, 

 together with an account of the existing state of the silver cur- 

 rency in its relation to gold on the one hand, and to paper on 

 the other. Now that the advocates of silver are calling for 

 an increased coinage of the metal, the facts and suggestions in 

 Professor Taussig's article will doubtless be useful. 



— Berly's "Universal Electrical Directory" (London, William 

 Dawson & Son) , now in the ninth year of publication, grows 

 in completeness and usefulness with each succeeding year. The 

 issue for 1890, which has recently made its appearance on this 

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 America, Great Britain, the continent of Europe, India, and 

 the British colonies, beside much other matter of interest to 

 those connected with electrical industries. 



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 projection, drawing, and interpretation of maps. The manual 

 will be illustrated with the various projections used in map- 

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